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Lord Hall said Capita had ‘fallen short of the standards the BBC has a right to expect on behalf of the British public’.

Mr Parker, who has run Capita for three years, earned a total of £2.68million in 2015 – the equivalent of £51,000 a week.

He will leave later this year when a replacement is found.

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Capita has had a dismal year financially, with a string of profit warnings leading to it falling out of the FTSE100.

In 2016, pre-tax profits fell by 33 per cent, and its share price is down by more than 40 per cent over the past 12 months.

A Capita source said the firm has been discussing Mr Parker’s future for two weeks following the poor results. The final decision was made in the hours before a crucial meeting at 6.30am yesterday.

The source added: ‘On Wednesday they were in discussions and they decided overnight. The TV Licence stories can’t have helped him. Everything counts.’

On Monday, the Mail Investigations Unit revealed the tactics used by fee enforcers. TV Licensing manager Ian Doyle told the reporter: ‘We will drive you as hard as we can to get as much as we can out of you because we’re greedy.’

All households must have a licence if residents watch or record live TV programmes on any channel, or download or watch BBC shows on iPlayer. This applies to any device used.

People who do not pay can be fined up to £1,000 and face a criminal conviction. Of the 38 people jailed for not paying the fine in 2015, most were women.

Mr Parker lives with his wife Nadine and two sons in a £2million house in Loxley, Warwickshire. In addition to his £550,000 salary, in 2015 he earned a £550,000 bonus and shares worth £1.5million from a long-term incentive plan.

He also claimed £63,353 in benefits, including private medical care.

Capita said he was not stepping down as a result of the Mail reports. It claims it does not target vulnerable people, and its incentive scheme only applies to fee sales, not convictions.

A spokesman added: ‘This mutually agreed decision follows weeks of discussions about the appropriate leadership to best support the group.

‘It is entirely inaccurate to suggest this board change is related in any way to the BBC TV Licensing contract.’

A BBC spokesman said: ‘It’s our policy to only prosecute evaders as a last resort.’